term of endearment meant to sublament a friendly acquaintence in order to belay his joyous accruments......Ahh, fuck this shit.....Its a dam nigger greeting usually to another nigger cause they know they will both end up in whitey's dog pound (jail) sooner than later. Also used in place of another niggers name when in company of relative strangers..in other words.. to protect a fellow crack dealer from having his real or nick-name thrown about in da streets...where vice could pick him out mo betta.

Dawg is a term to identify someone you would usually hang out with. Same for homie, homeboy, and homes/holmes. The term Dawg was started in Mexican American communities, but most of the urban terms like dawg, homie, homeboy, etc. are usually givin credit for to the black/African-American community. The term dawg was originally and most commonly used in Spanish, wich is Perro. But the Mexican Americans later started using it in English, dawg/dog.

Person 1: Whats up dawg?
Person 2: just chillin, about to pop open a Corona.